504 (Friedemann Friese/2F-Spiele, board game, 2015)
being a parameterized board game. The rules of an individual game are determined by picking 3 distinct rule-modules from a set of 9 and putting them together. Order matters, so there are 9*8*7 = 504 possible rule-compositions.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175878/504 https://a.weirder.earth/media/x6wwUBN5wdjc9vEx7q8
@westwind I don't actually know first-hand how it works out, as I haven't been lucky enough to play it myself.
But it seems to have been fairly successful at getting the balance and breadth right -- it won a prize for innovation and has something of a following.
Looking around a bit, I just found a forum post that tries to answer this question: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1620185/one-box-hundreds-technically-different-games-worth
At this point, everyone who cares has probably had a chance to at least learn what 504 is about. Nine (9) modules, pick 3 in order, play the resulting game. A little elementary combinatorics tells you that there are 504 technically distinct games possible; thus, the name. Everyone I've
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